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Thank you so much to @publishingscotland.bsky.social and @bookyvikki.bsky.social for inviting me to this evening's Silent Reading session. A brilliant initiative!
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![A Home in Space, a collection of Morgan’s more esoteric works – “selected concrete, visual and sound poetry” – is a necessary joy. Although some have been printed before, to see them in the original typewriter form is a wonderful harking back to when innovation did not mean clicking home / font / 14 point. There is an edginess that is in his more well known work; a sense of the glimpse and the overlooked being significant. [...] The editors, Julie Johnstone and Greg Thomas, should be commended for a book that is as beautiful as it is necessary, and which underlines how the avant-garde – Morgan, Hamilton Finlay, Riddell, Forrest-Thomas, WS Graham – was fundamental to Scottish poetics.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:knjov5teuricujoqalv72ugl/bafkreia5zc5fmr656pf3qcw6cdmk33ku2s5dzefqbeosyu3vofh7lefmni)
